The teacher uses knowledge of effective verbal, nonverbal, and media communication techniques to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the classroom.
In the artifacts I have included, I demonstrate my ability to use media as well as verbal communication in my classroom in order to best teach my students the ideas I want to teach. With the video worksheet, students were asked to answer those questions as they were watching the film instead of sitting like lame ducks and watching the film with no related activity. We also discussed the video after we watched it, and some students shared what they had written on their worksheets.
The document on rhetorical devices also shows my use of visuals in coordination with my speaking so as to cement the ideas I was trying to teach to the students. While they could hear me say the definitions, they could also see them as well as see the examples at work while I read them aloud. They could also see their own examples at work right before their eyes as they created them.
While it is impossible to have an artifact for non-verbal communication, I will say that I had a very encouraging demeanor throughout student teaching. If a student would say something excellent in discussion, I was frequently known to either curtsey to that student or even walk over to his or her desk and give that student a "high five." This is actually present in my journal entry, an artifact for standard nine.
When we were reading Shakespeare's Othello as a class, I showed a portion of a film version of the play made in the 1990's starring Lawrence Fishburne as Othello and Kenneth Branagh as Iago. Instead of having the students just sit and watch the film inactively, I made them a video worksheet to fill out as they watched the film. It was not a babysitter worksheet, but rather one that had them critically look at how the film portrayed the things they had been reading in terms of characterization, plot, setting, and themes. This is an example of where I used media and written communication to teach. Below you will find this video worksheet.
I did a few lessons during my last few days of student teaching on rhetorical devices for improving style. For those lessons, I hooked my laptop up to the classroom projector and taught my lesson from a word document I'd prepared. This document included several rhetorical devices along with their definitions and an example or two of each device. After talking these through with the students as they took notes, I asked them to come up with a few original examples as a class. As they raised their hands with examples, I typed them on my computer and they came up on the projector in real time. Also attached is this document which contains various examples from each of my three classes.
Author:
Jill Kingsland
Last modified:
6/19/2005 1:23 PM (EDT)
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